Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for docbook-xml (versioned as 4.5-7.2) and am about to upload it. debdiff attached.
Cheers, Julien
diff -u docbook-xml-4.5/debian/control docbook-xml-4.5/debian/control
--- docbook-xml-4.5/debian/control
+++ docbook-xml-4.5/debian/control
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
Package: docbook-xml
Architecture: all
-Pre-Depends: xml-core (>= 0.12)
-Depends: sgml-data (>= 2.0.2), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: sgml-data (>= 2.0.2), ${misc:Depends}, xml-core(>= 0.12)
Suggests: docbook, docbook-dsssl, docbook-xsl, docbook-defguide
Provides: docbk-xml
Description: standard XML documentation system for software and systems
diff -u docbook-xml-4.5/debian/changelog docbook-xml-4.5/debian/changelog
--- docbook-xml-4.5/debian/changelog
+++ docbook-xml-4.5/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+docbook-xml (4.5-7.2) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ [ Helmut Grohne ]
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Demote Pre-Depends on xml-core to Depends. It was used to fix upgrades
+ from etch to lenny, but this is no longer necessary. Closes: #705452.
+
+ -- Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:17:54 +0200
+
docbook-xml (4.5-7.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
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